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Re:Amazon Review Scam by o-__-o on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:58PM (#25042934)
If you force users to provide feedback, even if optional, expect many invalid results

In my experience, users won’t go out of their way to leave a worthless review. So if your app doesn’t nag, you have less spam. But that also means you miss a lot of legitimate people who don’t have the time or knowledge to leave good reviews.

Gift and curse etc

Re:Amazon Review Scam by tempestn on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:16AM (#25043500)
> If you force users to provide feedback, even if optional, expect many invalid results

I understand what you mean, but the phrasing of "forcing" someone to optionally do something is odd.

Re:Amazon Review Scam by o-__-o on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:27PM (#25048475)
A pop up is forcing users to acknowledge rating the app. It’s not truly optional when you get spammed once a day to submit a rating. So you get angry people submitting unhelpful ratings because they don’t understand the UX
Re:Amazon Review Scam by kmonsen on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:12PM (#25053349)
There was no nagging, never asked the user to leave a review. They really used it as a dating service all on their own.